Chakras the secrets of Life’s Blossoming

 

 

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nderstanding of chakras and the secret is essential for transcendence beyond sex and the quagmire that it creates around life and relations.

Most people are born through sex and die from the lowest chakra, the sex center. There are seven chakras in the body from where life can go out of the body. The last is on top of the head, and unless you are enlightened life cannot go out from that chakra.

As you move more and more into the present, inside you will come across seven lights. According to Hindu yoga there are seven Chakras.  Buddhist calls these phenomena as seven lights, or seven lamps. As you become more and more detached from the body, and possessions, and also you are not interested in desires, your energy starts moving upwards. The same energy that is contained at the lowest center, at the sex center begins to move upwards.

 

Indian music is more concerned with Sahasrar, the thousand-petal or seventh chakra. Western music on the other hand is more concerned with the sexual center, the Muladhar or the base center. When Western music overpowers you, you will feel sexually aroused. On the other hand when Indian music overpowers you, you will feel spiritually aroused and the process of elevation begins.

 

Music is a very subtle meditation. The seven notes of music are concerned with the seven chakras of the body and each chakra has its own note. If you concentrate on that chakra, you will start hearing that note arising within your body.

 

The second chakra has two notes, the third, has three. One is important, the other two are just part of it but create a harmony. It goes on becoming a greater harmony, rising higher with each chakra. On the seventh chakra it is an orchestra. Each chakra has its own form, its own music, its own taste, and its own smell. The deeper you move inside yourself, the more you find the whole world, because if it is not within you, you cannot see it without either. Something has to be within only then you will find the reflection outside. Something is always needed to correspond.

 

All this so-called esoteric knowledge about chakras, energy fields, kundalini, and astral bodies, is dangerous as knowledge. As experience it is a totally different thing. Therefore never acquire it as knowledge. If it is needed for your spiritual growth, it will come to you in its right time, and then it will be an experience. And if you have an acquired knowledge, borrowed knowledge, it is going to be a hindrance.

 

For example, Hindu yoga believes in seven chakras, Jain scriptures mention nine chakras. And Buddhist scriptures say that there are dozens of chakras. There are only the important ones which have been chosen by different schools. They do not give any fixed number. Acquired knowledge will always be confusing and you will not know how many chakras are there? And what are you going to do with that knowledge, whether there are seven or nine or dozens? Your knowledge is not going to help instead it can only hinder.

 

Energy fields, chakras and all esoteric things all are for experience and not for knowledge. Therefore keep your mind clean of all knowledge so that you do not expect anything. And when the experience happens, you are ready to accept it.

 

It happens exactly like that. There are seven chakras but they never exist in the same Places for all people. And there are experiences but they never happen in the same way for two persons. In reality they happen very differently.

 

So there is no need to know the physiology of the kundalini. There is no need to know the chakras. Also there is no need to know what happens finally because if you know it you will start hypnotizing yourself, and by and by you will start getting into the ritual. You will create a kind of dream around you. And when there are many people doing the same thing, you tend to fall into the crowd-mind. And then you start swaying with the crowd.

 

Once awareness has moved in the third eye and it starts functioning, or becomes alive that is why Hindus call it a CHAKRA. CHAKRA means a wheel. The wheel needs energy once the energy comes in, the wheel starts moving. By ‘movement’ is meant that it starts functioning. Then a great revolution happens in your being: immediately the lower heart bows down to the higher heart.

 

The Muladhar chakra has to be relaxed and relaxed from constipation and from diarrhea too. The Muladhar chakra has to function at the optimum, one hundred percent, only then energy starts moving.

 

Energy is needed, and energy is always beautiful. If you do not know how to use it, it becomes ugly and it goes on running astray. The energy has to go higher. Sex is the lowest center of your being. But that is not all. You have seven centers of your being. As the energy moves upwards, if you know the key how to release it upwards, as it moves from one center to another, you feel many stages of transformations.

 

When the energy comes to the heart chakra, you become so full of love and for the first time you become embodiment of love.

 

When the energy comes to the third-eye center you become consciousness, or awareness. When the energy comes to the last chakra, Sahasrar, you blossom. The season of spring has arrived. Your tree of life has come to a fulfillment: you become a Buddha. But the energy is the same. Therefore do not condemn or suppress. The existential energy is to be transformed. Be more understanding, alert only then will you be able to enter in totality.

 

Each chakra has its own colors, so when you concentrate on a certain chakra you will have certain colors in your dreams and visions. As you move upwards the colors change. In fact in yoga psychology, a person’s dreams, fantasies, and visions, can indicate where his energy is exactly.

 

Sometimes you are deluded by the body. And somehow, if you manage to go beyond the body, you are deluded by the mind, which is more of a deluder than anything else.

 

The first three chakras belong to the body. The next three chakras belong to the mind. And the seventh chakra is beyond both body and mind.

 

Ordinarily, the people who indulge remain in the first three lower chakras. They hang there. Those first three chakras are MULADHAR, SWADHISTAN and MANIPURA. These are earth-bound. They are earthly chakras, they are attracted by gravitation force thus they are pulled downwards.

 

The next three chakras: ANAHATA, VISUDDHA and AJNA are sky-bound. Gravitation does not affect them. They are under another law called levitation. They are pulled upwards. These three consist of the mind. The body is pulled downwards, mind is pulled upwards. But you are neither. You are the seventh, which is neither body nor mind.

 

So the people who indulge live in the first three chakras. And the people who repress the first three chakras start living in the next three chakras. But they create a dream-world.

 

The center around which one’s life has revolved is the center from where he will depart from this life. The place where he dwelt the whole life will be the place from where he will depart. Therefore, a yogi can leave from the agya chakra – or the third eye center, and a lover leaves from his heart chakra. The life energy of an enlightened man would leave from the Sahasrar, the seventh chakra his skull will break open as he departs from there.

 

When the energy moves upward you become more and more silent. Silence is the by-product of energy moving upward and tension is the by-product of energy moving downward.

 

You will be more and more in anxiety full of anger when energy moves down. On the contrary you will be more and more silent, quiet, calm and cool as energy moves upward and inward. And these words downward and outward are synonymous, and inward and upward are synonymous.

 

And when you have become silent, that energy is moving like a flood, it is passing through all the chakras, all the centers. And when it passes through all the chakras, it cleanses them, purifies them, and makes them dynamic, alive, and the flood goes upward, upward to the last chakra.

 

Sex is the first chakra, the first center, the lowest. Man exists at the lowest. That is why we know life only at its minimum. When the energy flows upward and reaches to the last chakra, to the SAHASRAR, energy is at its maximum, life is at its maximum. Then you feel as if the whole cosmos has become silent: not even a single sound is there. Everything becomes absolutely silent when the energy comes to the last chakra.

 

You know the first chakra; it will be easy to understand through that. When the energy comes to the sex center, you become absolutely tense. The whole body is feverish. Your every cell is in a fever. Your temperature goes high, blood pressure goes high, and breathing becomes haphazard. Your whole body is in a temporary delirium - at the lowest.

 

At the last chakra the situation is totally different. Your whole body becomes so cool, so silent, as if it has disappeared. You cannot feel it. You have become bodiless. And when you are silent the whole existence is silent because the existence is nothing but a mirror: it reflects or mirrors you. In thousands and thousands of mirrors, it reflects you. When you are silent the whole existence has become silent.

 

There are seven chakras, and the Anahata is – the heart chakra just in the middle. Three chakras are below it, and three above it.

 

The three below are Muladhar, Swadhisthan and Manipur. Those three belong to an extrovert personality. In the West, the majority lives through those three chakras. And now in the East also, the majority is moving towards the Western attitude of life. These three chakras are very easily available. They have a certain given function and you need not work much on them.

 

Without them, life will become impossible. They are survival measures, so nature has not given you a choice between them. From the moment you are born, those three chakras start functioning. They go on functioning until you die. The whole life is covered by those three chakras, and the extrovert person never comes to know that there is anything higher than these. Sex, money, power, prestige, respectability, name, and fame all belong to those three chakras.

 

And the Center of all those chakras is sex. People seek money in order to seek sex. People seek fame and power and prestige in order to seek sex. Sex remains the center of the lower three chakras. Sex remains the center of the extrovert personality. His whole mind revolves around sex.

 

Above the Anahata, the heart, there are three chakras: Visudha, the fourth center, then Ajna, between the two eyes, the third eye center. And Sahasrar, is the last center. It is the center of Samadhi, of ultimate enfoldment.

Between these two is the heart center. Between the introvert and the extrovert, is the heart that functions as a door. Heart is a bridge. Just as sex is the center of the extrovert mind, prayer or meditation is the center of the introvert mind. But to call it prayer is more relevant. Between these two when a person is just in the middle, on the fourth chakra, at the door love springs forth. Love is between sex and prayer.

 

When sex is somewhat purified, it becomes love. When love is also purified, it becomes prayer. So it is the same energy, the sexual or existential bio energy that goes into higher formations.

 

In the East people have tried to live an introvert life; they have tried to live above the heart. But both are lopsided. The Western extrovert mind and the Eastern introvert mind are both lopsided. To become a total man, one needs the functioning of all seven centers. It is not a question of choice. It is a question of being capable of living in all the centers without any conflict. There is none that can create conflict. It is the mind it is we who create the conflict.